On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Holiday homes Azalas in 2025, I would like to present some photos of the construction of the houses.
What times those were!
Carrying out such a large project was very difficult because we live so remotely – after all, back then there was no telephone, no internet, no water, and the road was sometimes hardly passable! Furthermore the construction was particularly adventurous because no stone houses had been built on Naxos in many years and we couldn’t find any workers who had any experience with it. So we proceeded on a trial and error basis – and learned a lot in the process! Our workers, various members of the Tsafos family from Danakos, bravely learnt with us; one of them has made building with natural stone his profession (link to his company at the bottom of the page).
What a project, what a job: piece by piece, stone by stone, all by hand: we even cast the concrete roofs by hand – with the help of many friends.
